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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-06-09
A Cause Of badness.

A writer in the current Popular
Science Monthly maintains with great
pl~ausibality that badness is chiefly
caused by wearing of head-gear that
a'constricts the blood-vessels which
nourish the hair-buibs." He cites the
factthat hairless heads arechiefy con
fined to men, women being compsr-
alively exempt from the afflicilon, and
mainly to members OF the male sex
who are in good circumstances and
who spend a larger portion of the day
out OF doors and consequently have
tlle3- crowns covered more than IN
door workers. The high hat and the
hard felt hat receive the brunt of the
criticism, inasmuch as they. especially,
exert sUch a pressure upon the arteries
passing upward over the sides OF the
skull that the flow of blood TO the
roots OF tho hair Is restricted As a
result The hair is starved and fails
out. Bald men are seldom without
hair around the base of the head,
which portion is exposed to the air.
and is below the line OF pressure; and
badness invariably begins on the top
otthe hsad. where the ~circuiatieni is the
weakest. The writer asserts: "Ibave
never seen a person whose habitual
head-coyering was soft and yield
ing suffer from badness. The, acri-
culturist, whose habit IT is to wear
the loosest head-coverinss during the
greater part of his life, has usually
more hair than Is conducive to com
fort; but his son who has taken to
city life may be bald at thirty"
What tais theorist propounds is enti-
tied to consideration. The proofs
which he cites are open to observation
OF every person; and Others may be
easily supplied.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-06-09

For strawberry blancbmanae,
spread a quart OF Strawberries on "A
broad dish. strew them over thickly
with pulyerized sugar and let them
stand for 1--WE or SIX hours or untilthe
Juice has been well drawn from them.
Then make a b~iancnange with CELIA
tine, sweeten it to taste and stir in
the juice OF the berries. Mix all well
together, pour the mixture into a
damp mould and place on the ice till
set.
To make steamed eggs, break -four
or five eggs into separate saucers,
slide them carefully into q well-but
tered dish, with a broad bottom, lay q
piece OF butter ON top of each egg
cover the dish over tightly and sci ii
a pan OF boiling water. When
they become set, season them with n
little salt, and dish up, laying each
egg upon a thin piece Of nicely-broiied
ham.
For snow custard use one pint Of
milk, one pint of cream. one-auarter
pound of white sugar; 10 eggs, one
stick of cinnamon. Put the milk.
cream. sugar and cinnamon IN a farina
kettle, and set on the fire; when the
mixture begins to boil, pour IN the
yolks OF the eggs, having previously
beaten them up IN a few spoonfuls OF
cold milk; keep stirring the mixture
till it begins to boil again; then take
ont the cinnamon, and stir in the
whites, previously well beaten, stir
ring quickly all the time to prevent
running over; when done, put il into
a dish garaished with small cakes.
For Spanish biscuits use eight eggs,
six ounces OF pulyerized sugar, one
halt hound OF -four, the grated zest of
one lemon. Beat the yolks OF the eggs
as hight "a possible, then stir IN the
sugar; then beat the whites OF the eggs
to a stiff roth, and mix this lightly
with the sugar and the yolks; lastly
stir in the flour and the lemon zest;
beat the whole thoroughly well to-
gether, drop the mixture on paper,
place this Oh a baking tin and bake in
q moderate oven.
Graham bread that can be started
alter breakfast and baked before din
ner is made OF one pint and a hall OF
sour milk, two scant teaspoonfuls OF
soda dissolved in a little hot water.
hall a cupfnl OF New Orleans molasses.
a t~easpoonful of salt and as much
sIfted graham -four as can be stirred
i with a spoon. Grease aiarce bread
tin very evenly, as the molasses in
the bread renders it liable to stick.
put INTO the oven hot and bake for
two hours. Have the oven hot when
the bread Is put IN, and towards the
last half OF the last hour let it cool
gradually Or this bread may be
steamed for one hour and three-quar.
tiers, and be dried on in the oven
twenty minutes. When il is taken
from the oven wrap a towel around
the Loaf, the tin and all, aNi in ten
minutes rsmove from the Tin, and
keep the loaf wrapped in the cloth
until 1t is sent TO tabls.-Philadeiphia
Record.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-06-09
Cultivate wen wh., you H.,s.

New York Times: Instead of plan
ing how you can buy that adjoining
farm, and how you can make the wife.
girls and boys scrimp and save to pay
for it, depriving them, not only OF the
comforts, but of many of the actual
necessities of life, that you may die
the owner of a few more acres, it is
much better to study how you may
arrange the barns, or build a new one
II necessary, so that you may feed a
few steers, and few sheep and lambs,
or feed aud milk a few COWS,
anythIng, or everything 70 increase
the nlanurial supply tall you have
enough TO bring every acre you have
to its highest state of productiyeness.
VI takes no more teams, time or
labor to cultivate a rich acre than a
poor one, and there is a great deal
more money-and satisfaction, too-
in one acre highly nanuted and heav-
lily cropped than in two hall manured,
and growing ordinary crops. No
farmer should be satisfied with any
crop he ever has produced, no mat
ter how large; bat should continually
strive for something to excel all pre-
yious yields
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-06-09
Ihom n,ila norerina IS rennlrea lor oats

how little covering is required for oats
or barley sown on newly turned soil.
1t the plow throws the land into
ridges, which are left to dry out before
seeding, it is much less dry than II
seems. Leave the soil after leveling
its ridges and hall an inch below ITS
surface if in proper tilth there viii
be sufficient moisture 70 gsrminate
seeds. II we could cover pring sgrain
uniformly hall an inch deep 1t would
IN o cases be better than a deeper
covering. 1t is the general lauit oil
grain drills that they cover the seed
too deeply, and for that rfason some
farmers prefer to level the surface and
sow broadcast for spring grain rather
than to use a drill. 8nt II alter plow-
ins the ground is rolled it viii com.
paet the surface and thus prevent the
wheels uithe drill sinking down and
carving the seed down too deeply IN
the driIl tubes. On dry soil in good
filth without rolling the points OF the
tubes are often four or i've INCHES be
low the surface. Some of the seed so
deeply covered perishes, while that
which grows becomes feeble and ex-
hausted by its long struggle towards
air and light.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-06-09
Keep the Cellar cIeaa.

Mr.. T. B. Terry, after citing the fa-t
that coalgas can pass through brick
and be isnited on the other eide. and
that the air from dark damp ceilers
reaches living rooms very readily By
way of the cracks IN ordinary house
floors, conveying germs OF disease,
gives this good advice, in Mr.. Roots
'tGleanings:'
Because the cellar is out OF sight,
do not let it be neglected. Keep II as
clean as any room IN the house. There
is no other safe way. First OF al, make
it dry. In selecting 8 place Tor a
house, always choose a dry piece OF
land. II the house is alrf ady built, do
not spare drain-tiles and labor until
Won have made the cellar as
dry as possible. Next, plaster II
overhead, without fail. Air viii
not 90 through mortar nearly as
easily as through a brick. Put build
ing paper under carpets instead OF
straw. Be sure to whitewash cellars
all ever once in a year or two. Have
a cement floor, and keep IL clean. II
you have reason to suspect there IS
anything wrong lit viii do no harm
any way, fnm:zate it by burning rags
first dipped IN melted birthstone.
When it will do no harm, let II the
sunshine. Most of all do not allow
any decaying vegetable oranimal mat
ter to stay in IL Now, m~asculins
friends. do make your wIye see to
this, but tend to it yourselves, IS you
value the lives oiyour6ear ones One
may live over a damp filthy cellar for
years, and not pay the penalty; he
may bury every child within a week.
Pure air, sunshine, and pure water
are the best ~preventiyes OF disease.
Make the air OF home t~eeliars and all
as pure al possible"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-06-09
nernrntinr ths Iuml Of Inran.

Washington Special The tomb OF Gen.
Logan rs upon the grassy, wooded western
slopes oil the ancient and picturesque Rock
Ereek cemetery. A little TO the east and
south ofit il the national cemetery, ad,
jacent TO the soldiers home, where there
are thousands Of grave OF the known and
unknown dead. The road that leads &c
both these places was lined all day with
old soldiers, hobblinc along on canes
aud crutcbes, with ladies bringing baskets
nvcrflowirg with flowers, with troops q
patriotic citizens who carried garlaHds
which they were TO place upon the grayes
OF the dead. Oh the wooded heights o.
Arlington, far To the south were IS, 900 81
tile Union dead lie buried, the same worI
was dome bnt the most notable spot in all
that long floral circuit was the tomb o
Gen. Logan. The cemetery is thrss
Iniies from the city. but distance seemed
To deter no one. Hundreds went on foot,
yehicles of all kinds bore the rest The
tomb itself was a model OF floral beauty.
A committee 81 ladies, who had worked
basily from early morning. had ARRANGED
the vast number OF floral tributes about
the tomb 30 that as the widow approach.
ed It when the snn Was going down, she
could not repress the tears OF a grief that
is qnsnehless. The art OF ths
florist has seldom been more sac
c~essfully exhibited. The gray stone OF the
tomb was completely hidden from view by
the flags and wreaths and flowers. The
interior OF the structure had more the ap
pcaranse OF a bower OF flowers than Of q
tomb. The casket has never been placed
within any Of the vaults in the tomb II
has rested across the floor OF the tomb en-
tirely in the open space covered with tht
flags OF his army corps, visible from thu
roadway through the grating. Every mich,
and corner Of the tomb was filed with
flowers in all forms.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-06-09
CONDENSED NEWS


esm q Minnesota csAssnsy y. In EsshiagtSa.
correspondent says No greater eorwd
aas yet ~asser8laec IN tbs grand stand
ihsa sat there st 1880 last Saturday
corting. on the 2Sth inst, when Capt. Bean
ed his eoasoany thrcagh the inrtAer gates
q the drill gr0Bndenclosnre. Amengt them
sat Coy. MctdA, Adit Gen. Seeiy, Mai
Strait Congressman Macdonald Can't
enlbereH. Senator nanielS ggsge GrowelI.
W. ". Nrien. Ual. Richardson agsd a score
IL Others. The modest regulation uni
lorm gith tlap broad white stripe at the
EGGS, tie imn1aculate regulation gloves and
The erect bearing OF the men challenged The
slsnir.ti0H 81 the aadieace alter a Neeks
stately 81 bright ard glitterias trappines,
aud ssa r~egglati9a step IN which they have
bcsEa trained eangbt the eye ard won the
fespnet a the regular army men scattered
slsoat the enclosure.
The associated press account says:
The Minnesota men are OF remarkable
pnfiorIniiy IN size, and are Vers soieriy
esad, their white gloves, white shoulder
knots and haasstipfgea helmets being
almost the only reiiei 20 the soatarness
d terir uniforms. Tiaey stacked tReii
a==as flied 60 tho rear. came to the right
about again and 10 the front as Que man
The CLINT Of the saassl6ine upon their iel
NETS. b~ctrayin; not the slightest waveriag
Ia fixing and u~siiixiHs basonets there vert
tso or three eloqueats, but IN ~gcnsraltheir
work at the manual was exceeiiRgly good.
while ia firing by hle. knesling. lyiag Gown
and rising they ~ere second TO none. In
saugcHaeats by company front and Va4 ley
Afine fitey kept mp their excellent record.
but tsey made enc glariug iailnre. 1isey
lost step and line IN an advance at dSubh
time. halted. Esd, without dressing. kheli
Tor firing sadly oatof hae. With this sin
gle exception their reoozd is almost unex
sepiionabie. Tbs divisions Of military
judges was expected on Monday.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-06-09

We have neyero observed an instance
where children kept on living in the
parents home after maturity and for
years that both parties were not
dwarfed by it. If the mother is a
woman OF foI CO and viii she must or.
der her household after her own IDEAS,
II her children are like her, there viii
be or less inevitable clashings
II they are weak and suhmiss i've nv
nature, her influence viii make
them so. IL she is docile and
yielding, they will beikely TO override
her and reduce her to a nonentitv,
The way out is for the children ia
set UP homes for themselves, in which
they have the supreme right to be the
centre Whether or not children after
they have reached the age OF 25 living
with their parents, should be treated
as II not yet in their teens, the fact is
they viii often be treated SO, il their
parents are people of definite IDEAS as
TO the manner II which their honsa-
hold shall be conducted, and the chil-
dren have definite ideas OF what they
want IN the premises. 1t is no upus1.
80 I"
al thing for children not vet ont ~
their teens to think the "eId folks"haye
held n reins long enough and should
take a back seat and let young hands
assume the lead. The trouble generally
Is that the old folks ieel quite as com.
petent as ever they did to
and ike William the eonquerer, when
ms 0 Robert insisted on having the
crown OF Normandy placed on his
iaaaa. declined to disrobe until thew
70 TO bed" The parental home be.
longs first to the parents ard then
TO The children under such limitations
as the parents prescribe. 1t is Tor the
parents TO lay down laws for the chill
dren, not the children for the parents.
And yet all reasonable parents will be
glad TO eoncede to the IDEAS. wishes
opinions of their children all they can
with due regard to their ownindividu-
al interests, and no reasonable child
could or should ask more thar IRIS
-NewIork Tribune.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-06-09
Farm Grass In Kansas

Including n4iilet and Hungarian
there were in Kansas this year 5, $780,
$50 acres OF land devoted to the rails
ing OF hay, The yield per acre was
l6l tons or a total product Of u, oo2,-
$40 tons. None of the tame grasses
have as yet attained a large area in
this state, themost extensively grown
beng timothy, which has an area
OF %, s44 acres. The great bulk oil
the grass lands mentioned above is
the prairie, protected by fence. The
eastern third OF the state probably
contains four fifths OF the tame grass
area. The question OF the growing OF
tame grasses in Kansas is receiving
much attention from farmers, it be
coming OF yast Importance as people
increase the number OF their farm ami.
mails. The question no doubt will
be satisfactorily solved within a few
Years, and the tame grass area Will
increase to its just proportion.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-06-09
rrai.ias Tree. and Vines.

The art of guiding q vine or tree into
shape and yield that We desire 1T TO
have, and doing this without any vio-
lent check or interruption OF its de
velopement, is one OF the most de
lightfully interesting OF all the yarie'
ties ofgarden work. IL is simple, too.
The first and chief thing TO be learned
is to check or bend in time, as an I'm
glish gardener well expresses it, when
piuching out a point cot larger than
a pinhead will produce the desired et-
feet without robbing the plants of an
ounce of vital force" IL rs a merely
turning into the desired direction the
first threadlike flow of what viii soon
be "a torrent not to be stemmed with.
out violence and loss Wonders OF
change can be made in the habit and
figure Of a plant, a vine, n tree, or a
flogerbed, IN this quiet, easy, simple
way.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-06-09
rIrp..o,. G.t, u. second nlllt.r, rrlr,.

On Monday. May the a0th inst, in Wash,
mgton, all the troops remaining in the
sity who were on the grounds were drawn
up in company 'front.' when Gen. Sheridan
mounted the stand erected Tor the purpose
and announced the following winners o
Infantry prizes:
Company P~rizes-First Lomax Rifles
s.. 600; second, Company ID, First Mime
sofa. 81, 500; third, Belknap Rifles %
Texas, 81, 500: fourth, National Rifles ID
Washington, $1,000, fifth san Antonio
Rifles, $500.
Battalion Prizes-First Washington
Light infantry. $4,000; second, Louisville
Legion, 81, 500.
Light Artillery Prizes-First, Indianapo.
Us Light artillery, s 1 .5oo; second, Milsan'
kee Light battery, $1,000.
ZOuave Prizes-Firsf, Chicago Zouaves,
81, coo, second, Memphis Merchants, $3.50
Cadet PTizss-tirsL, Michigan Military
academy, 81, 600; second. Maryland Agri-
cultural colleges, $3.50.
Rerimental prizes to First regiment. Nir.
yinia, the only competing organization,
Stand Of eoiors and silver and bronze med.
ais to the officers
Individual dril: First. Private Fl. q.
Stack, san Antonio Rifles, gold medal and
Sl09; second, Sergeant Charles F.. Conrad
company b. Washington Light Infantry,
silver modal and $50; third. Sergeant J.
T.. Wagner. Company A. Louisville Legion,
bronEe medal and $50.
Inaddifion to the list ofprizes announced
10 be awarded by the board Of Judges. tbs
executive committee bestowed upon the
the First Light BATTERY OF Wisconsin aeolc
medal for proficiency in saber drill and 9
silver medal to the Louisville legion drum
corps Tor proficiency in music and move
Euent.
A legal holiday let loose the department
people ana ncarly every seaton the grounds
was taken, while the circle IN front OF the
Erand stand was filed with spectators. 4
bright sun shown over the lawn-Eke OK
J,anse Of the drill ground. while a brist
breeze tempered the air to a del
eioHs spring GOODNESS. The pa
ratie before the stand where the prizes
Rere announced Was a magnificent display
oi soldiery. The r~egiHueutal bands played
their most inspiring tunes, while The long
lines OF gittering uniforms and arms clio,
tied round alter round OF applause as the
~lavorite companies passed in and went
through their preliminary eyolHtiops.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-06-09
Mark Twain's Native Gauaptry

That was a graceful thing Mark
Twain did with regard to his last maoa.
zine article, English as She Is Taught y
IN the April Century. It seems hat a
Miss lie Row, a teacher in the Central
Grammar School, in BROOKLYN had
been collecting the absurdest of the
mistakes OF pupils IN their recitations
answers and compositions. Wban
she had a grand pile she Determined
&c publish them IN book form, and She
wrote to Twain to ask ii she mipht
Dedicate the work to him. She sent
him proof sheets.
de made up a magazine article 10
help the book along and sent her
proofs OF that. He also cot her r.
change the title from sTeachinr tha
Young Idea to English as She Is
Taught. She cut this maaag;na
proofs materially, taking out what
sne Thought reflected on her profession
The article as he wrote 1t was worth
sou, but she much reduced it ana
MARX made a fight for his fu.l n-;ca
and got it. When the check came he
made It over to her and mailed II -
ner, so that she got the money as wsll
asthe trernendouspuf He had never
seen her in his life.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-06-09
aIs,tsr From the rrssiasn,.

President Cleveland, in response to the
circular letter sent out by Ex-Gox. Dorshe-
inner. suggesting subscriptions toward the
6rantmoaBmcnt fund. writes as follows.
Hon. Mr.. porsheimer-My Dear Sir lam
very glad that sou meaato take this plano oil
raising money by snEsE subscriptions from
the people Tor the GIANT monument. Ger
tainiy Too much cannot te dons ia that
direction and | cannot but think our eiti-
zrns generally will he pleased to give a tan
sible proof. which this opportunity will
eier 81 the sincerity Of their admiration al
Americas greatest general. ! haNe already
made a contribution for the object you
have in view. but gladly intlose as a sub
scription to your inad $40. which ! under
stand Is the maximum amount expected
81 amy single contributor.
Tsignedl GROVER C~LEvELASR.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-06-09

A rather remarkable exhibit has
been made in the annual report of the
Illinois Central railroad, showing
lost of locomotive service for each
year OF the past thirty years. The
cost per mile run has fallen from 1862
cents IN 1857 to l3.93 cents IN 1856.
This reduction has been effected
wholly by inventions and improve
ments in machinery But the figures
show that the progress OF invention
has been even more remarkable than
these figures imply. because the wages
Of engineers and firemen have risen in
the same period from All cents to
$50 cests per mile run In 1857 the
eneneers and firernen received as
wages Il per cent OF the entire cost OF
locomotive service In 1856 they re
ceived 80 per cent of the total cost.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-06-09
ii. II. ". Pinkner. in

Col. II. w. Pinkney. in q. com
munication &c Dixie, calls a halt to
southern landowners who are in such
haste to sell their standing timber to
northern buyers that the latter are
able to make almost their " terms.
At such prices neither the owner nor
the community reap any benefit that
win compensate them for The fine
timber they lose. Saw-mills may give
some temporary employment, but it
is to a migratory class who spend
their WAGES recklessly. "a saw-milI
town or village has always the
appearance OF being ready to move
further or. and it does move on.
csu any one imagine anything more
dismal than the deserted location OF
Z once busy saw-m:Hss las a source
Of individual wealth. the South has
nothing that win compare with its
timber. In variety and beauty Of
woods it has no peer. and II viii be
hut . fex years before they viii be
eagerly sought after Placed on the
market now. and literally forced on
unwilling purchasers, sales car only
be effected by FOOLISH and unwarran
t5e SACRIFICES.